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Welcome to Lund Stem Cell Center's new homepage! Here you will find our research groups, information on our core facilities, research school, latest news and events, job vacancies and more.
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/welcome-new-homepage-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-08-23
Principal Investigators Daniella Ottosson and Charlotta Böiers have been accepted to join Lund Stem Cell Center.A warm welcome to the Ottosson and Böiers groups. To learn more about their research, the following Stem Cell Talks have been scheduled: Wednesday 25th September: Principal Investigator Daniella Ottosson. Details here.Wednesday 23rd October: Principal Investigator Charlotta Böiers. Detai
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/welcome-two-new-principal-investigators-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-08-23
Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Very exciting to start up as new CMES director! Karin Aggestam: "It has been some hectic, but very exciting weeks as new director for CMES. I am deeply impressed by the large number of scholars at Lund University who conduct cutting-edge research on the Middle East. The House on Finngatan 16 serves as a wonderful hub for interdisciplinary researc
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/newsletter-middle-east-forum-newsletter-october - 2025-08-23
The workshop is called: Unpacking ‘the Opposition’ in undemocratic regimes: The Role, Transformation and Challenges of the Oppositional Actors in Turkey and beyond The purpose of this workshop is to initiate a debate on the opposition in Turkey and contribute to the theorization of the role, transformation, mobilization strategies and different forms of the opposition in undemocratic regimes. The
Middle East Forum Newsletter #15 Message from the director: New CMES board in place While CMES 2.0 is still in the making some important steps have been taken in the last few weeks. We are pleased to announce that a new interdisciplinary board has been formed. Four faculties are represented from Lund University, which include dean and prof Christofer Edling (chair), prof Martin Dribe, Economic H
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-15 - 2025-08-23
Exploring the broader field of environmental dimensions of conflict – in the Middle East region and beyond As part of the Climate Stress in Syria-research project, there was a closed interactive online workshop on October 14th to discuss the nexus around drought, vulnerability and conflict. This post describes the workshop that was held online on October 14th, 2020, as the first workshop in the Cl
Cover: Nineveh Press Ten non-Armenians from ten European countries write about their interest in and experiences of Armenia. In moving and, at times, funny essays they depict dramatic events, lasting friendships, political struggles. We hear about lavash and brandy, genocide and revival, Yerevan and small God-forgotten villages in Hayastan and Artsakh. The authors describe how their interest in A
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-svante-lundgren-one-editors-new-book-armenia-mon-amour-ten-europeans-speak - 2025-08-23
CMES Spyros Sofos was awarded a PhD in Regional and Cross-cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen after the examination of his thesis entitled “The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy” on Monday 7 December. The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy This thesis is intended to make a contribution to ongoing efforts to enhance our understanding of the “p
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-phd-thesis-meanings-people-turkish-politics-genealogy - 2025-08-23
Project title: AI assisted radar rainfall algorithms for advanced engineering decision support systems. Photo: Joshua Lanzarini on Unsplash Local weather often is not what news reports for cities and counties. As transient, local, and intense as a cloudburst, rainfall can be highly variable, impractical to measure for usual rain-gauge networks. Frequent extreme events with climate change call for
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-hasan-hosseini-has-got-pre-seed-funding-2021-lu-innovation - 2025-08-23
Photo: Mor Shani on Unsplash The article has been published in Sustainability and is available online. Co-writers are Khaldoon A. Mourad and Hasan Hosseini, also from CMES. Farmers know much more than we think, and they are keen to improve their knowledge in order to improve their farms and increase their income. On the other hand, decision-makers, organizations, and researchers are increasing the
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/role-citizen-science-sustainable-agriculture-new-article-cmes-helen-avery - 2025-08-23
Lisen Dellenborg & Maria Frederika Malmström Female Circumcision/Genital Mutilation and Human Rights: Ownership of Personal Change. Cover: Nille Leander and Sara Johnsdotter Co-writer Lisen Dellenborg. The article is published in the book "FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING The Global North and South" (Malmö University). Open access. In recent decades, female genital mutilation has come to be regarded as a ma
Akiça Bahri is the new Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in Tunisia. It is during a difficult time that Akiça Bahri has taken over the responsibility as Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in Tunisia. But with a doctorate in water management from Lund University and many international missions on her CV, she was ready for the assignment. Since 2011 and the s
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lu-doctor-water-focus-and-cmes-connections-new-minister-tunisia - 2025-08-23
Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director Seasonal greetings from the team at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies This has been a strange and challenging year. We have just closed down the Centre temporarily due to escalating Covid-19 pandemic. However, in 2021 we hope to be moving towards brighter times! CMES is set to launch some new initiatives to consolida
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-16-december-2020 - 2025-08-23
The Middle East contributes to about 25% of the dust particles produced in the world. Photo: Darya Tryfanava on Unsplash The majority of the new dust sources are due to environmental degradation caused by human activities. To prevent further dust source generation, the first step is to identify the new dust sources and predict the dust source occurrences in the vulnerable areas. We developed a nov
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-about-dust-source-detection-and-dust-source-susceptibility-mapping - 2025-08-23
Photo: JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash This study identifies obstacles and barriers in distance learning and the use of electronic exams, comparing them to pursue success in the distance education system during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). It also aimed to determine the similarity and differences between the two main components of distance education. This is based on a sample of evaluations from
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The demand for water supply is continuously rising due to population growth and development across the world. In arid and semi-arid areas, particularly the Middle East, aquifers form the central freshwater reserves, hence are being uncontrollably exploited to meet water demand for an ever-increasing population and industrialization. To achieve sustainability in g
Photo: Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Groundwater resources provide a large share of the world’s water demand for various sectors such as agriculture, industry, and drinking water. Particularly in the Middle East's arid and semi-arid regions, with surface water scarcity and high evaporation, groundwater is a valuable commodity. Yet, groundwater data are often incomplete or nonexistent. Therefore, it i
In this article CMES Spyros A. Sofos and Nazanin Shahrokni present a case analysis of Sahar Khodayari’s transformation into a global injustice icon, the #BlueGirl, after she set herself ablaze outside a courthouse in Tehran, Iran, allegedly in protest against the ban on women entering football stadiums. We focus on the ways in which ‘pity’ was generated, mobilized, and transformed into indignation
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mobilizing-pity-dialectics-narrative-production-and-erasure-case-irans-bluegirl - 2025-08-23
The present article by CMES Orwa Ajjoub provides a thematic analysis of Hadid’s essay titled “Between Chechnya and al-Sham … Lessons and Examples: A Brief Political Study of the Chechen Experience and the Future of al-Sham,” which was published on the AQ-affiliated website Bayan in July 2020. In his recent article for Jihadica, Aaron Zelin proposed the emergence of a tripolar jihadi world consisti
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/reading-kadyrov-al-sham-adnan-hadid-chechnya-syria-and-al-qaidas-strategic-failure - 2025-08-23
Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Cover: Springer CMES Helen Avery has published a chapter (together with Birgitta Nordén) in the book "Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals". Urgent structural change is required in higher education to allow collaborati
